When Mail service starts for the first time, it creates an empty mail store at the default location. You can ignore this or delete it after you specify an alternate mail storage location and restart Mail service.
2In Server Admin, select a computer in the Servers list, then select Mail.
3Click Settings.
4Click the Advanced tab.
5Click Data Store.
You’ll see the current location of the mail store.
6In the Mail store location field, enter the path of the location where you want mail files to be stored.
You can browse for a location by clicking Choose next to the Location field.
Creating Additional Mail Store Locations
Mail service can scale well as your storage needs change. You can spread the mail store across several disks or file systems. You can add partitions to the mail store without requiring downtime, or even users’ knowledge.
To use new mail store locations, you designate the partition where the mail store resides. Enter the mail store path in the user’s mail settings using Workgroup Manager. For more instructions, see User Management.
The mail store partitions can be additional hard disk partitions or remotely mounted file systems. For remotely mounted file systems, NFS isn’t recommended.
Note: Creating locations doesn’t put mail in those locations. Edit the user records in Workgroup Manager to start delivering mail to the partitions. Deleting a location doesn’t delete the mail at that location, but makes those mail folders inaccessible.
To split the mail store:
1In Server Admin, select a computer in the Servers list, then select Mail.
2Click Settings.
3Click the Advanced tab.
4Click Data Store.
You’ll see the current location of the mail store.
5To add a location, click the Add (+) button below the Additional Mail Store Locations box and complete the following:
a Enter a name for the mail store location (for example, “Marketing” or “Executive”). b Enter the path to the new location (such as /Volumes/mailstore2).
c Click OK.
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